Word: throat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement of New Jersey's 36-vote break to Stevenson actually came eight hours after the Michigan switch−but New Jersey was the absolute cruncher. When it happened, a top Harriman aide silently drew his finger across his throat...
...will pore for hours over his speech, writing, switching, scratching (quips a friend: "He would rather be writer than President"). When he steps before his audience, he tightens up, his throat constricts and his voice rises. His gestures and his smile become mechanical. The speech comes from cerebration, from Choate and Princeton and Plato, from Seneca and Government reports−rarely from the heart. Even in his studied attempts to be down to earth, he sounds like a professor laying down the day's lecture for the class...
Outside Pressure. For Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman, who led the five-man Southern wing of the subcommittee over the rough flooring of the plank, the results were "palatable"; i.e., the plank was not shoved down his throat. His willingness to negotiate had kept the committee from blowing up altogether. But he and his fellow Southerners were sure of one thing: they would not countenance a change in the wording that would indicate any pledge to implement the Supreme Court's decision. This settled, John McCormack called for a vote at 2:45 a.m. For the record...
...page boy at the Kansas City convention of 1900, 16-year-old Harry joined full-throat in the bedlam when William Jennings Bryan ("He was one of my heroes") stampeded his second convention with his silver-tongued, silver-oriented (16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama...
Daily at 5 a.m., the horse was stuffed into a stall heated to 105° F., subjected to half an hour's isolation in a dank fog of springwater steam. As if that were not enough, tubes were shoved into his mouth and vapor blown down his throat. Later, through a rubber mask over nostrils and mouth, he was forced to inhale more of the curative minerals. After an hour of cooling stall-walking, Pyrame was led out to the light and air, got his daily ration of Bourboulien water, fresh from the spring...